Looking at the Sun

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

HALOE Looking at the Sun

The Halogen Occultation Experiment, HALOE, was designed to carefully monitor hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen chloride, byproducts of CFC destruction in the stratosphere. HALOE operates by observing the absorption of infrared radiation by these molecules against the rising and setting sun .

HALOE observing the sun at the limb of the Earth

Metadata

  • Sensor

    UARS/HALOE

  • Animation ID

    812

  • Video ID

    SVS1999-1001

  • Start Timecode

    1:04:43:07

  • End Timecode

    1:06:25:00

  • Animator

    Jesse Allen

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1999/04/09

  • Scientist

    Mark Schoeberl (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Sensor

  • DLESE Subject

    Technology

  • Data Date

    None

  • Animation Type

    Regular